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Young Adult Authors Series: Presenting Lynn Hall: Twayne's Young Adult Authors

Autor Susan Stan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 1996
This groundbreaking series examines the life and work of a bestselling young adult novelist, helping both teachers and readers of young adult literature to understand many of their favorite authors.

Each title in this unique series provides:

-- A succinct, readable summary of the life and art of a leading young adult author

-- Extensive interviews with the authors themselves, giving young readers the means to get to know their favorite authors as real people

-- Jargon-free literary analysis of the author's work with attention to plot, theme, character, setting and imagery

-- A chronology, notes and references, selected bibliography, list of awards, photos, index and more

-- Insights and background material helpful for teaching mid-grade and young adult novels

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780805782189
ISBN-10: 0805782184
Pagini: 125
Dimensiuni: 142 x 220 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Twayne Publishers
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In Presenting Lynn Hall, Susan Stan draws a vivid picture of a woman whose own life - past and present - is reflected in her books: Hall's young adult novels often focus on the isolation of strong young women who have chosen to step outside the traditional female role. Stan uses The Solitary, Hall's affecting portrait of a young "loner", to dramatize Hall's practicality, her determination, and her life on her own. Beginning with a visit to Touchwood, Hall's country home (where she breeds Bedlington terriers), Stan reveals the author as a determined woman who recognized early on that she could not rely on anyone else to give her the life she wanted, and who during her twenties and thirties worked single-mindedly to achieve her dream of living alone on an acreage where she could have horses and dogs. This insight into Hall's character informs Stan's analysis of Hall's works in the young adult genre. Stan effectively demonstrates how Hall's stories may be grouped around themes of survival, independence, and family relationships. Stan frames her examination of Hall's work with interesting and illuminating details of Hall's life as a breeder of champion dogs, her publishing history and her relationships with editors, and the roots of her solitary lifestyle. In doing so, Stan presents Lynn Hall as an example of how one self-described "ordinary" young woman persevered and wrote her way into a rather extraordinary life.